toastmeister

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

It will all be Chromebooks and software as a service by then. Unless you work as a SaaS vendor, then it will be automatically orchestrating docker containers.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Europe broke their own procurement laws in order to choose Microsoft for the cloud, its good that tariffs were enough for them to finally follow their own laws.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

We don't have open borders, so we already do disallow entry. We just used to match it to capacity, which is what I'm saying is logical to do.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

So cram them into substandard housing because they deserve less rights than animals?

You're not offering a tangible answer here, the argument is situational similarity, not ontological equivalence.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

If you had a zoo would you continue bringing in animals if they had no space left to live comfortably?

Likely you would call that inhumane, you wouldnt say they were being intolerant of the new animals if they did not.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

we got in this morass because the neoliberal state and its accompanying economy financialized every damn thing

The problem is monetary policy, not deregulation. Deregulation of zoning and housing policy would actually prevent monetary policy from creating such a large housing bubble.

Our Bank of Canada targets a 2% inflation, which means prices need to continuously rise as technology actively reduces goods prices, and we then exclude investments and housing appreciation entirely, and we do hedonic adjustments to discount goods inflation. Then there's likely an element of shrinkflation, as company find tricks to cheapen products or degrade services, which lead to no inflation in the CPI but higher profits and then lower prices.

So the money supply needs to grow via low interest rates, in order to provide a windfall to boomers to encourage them sell their real estate holdings, to create new bank loans, to increase the money supply, which turns into aggregate demand, in order to create inflation in the CPI.

But we can't build enough houses due to reverse neo-liberalism, so housing acts as liquidity sponges for cheap debt, and people hold them as investments in perpetuity since they think prices are always going to go up. Also as interest rates fall inflation falls, as interest expense is included in the CPI while housing appreciation is not, its a feedback loop due to its poorly constructed nature. The Bank of Canada now also buys half of all mortgage bonds to attempt to reverse this, so they're actually printing money in order to cause deflation funnily enough, again due to the absurd way the CPI is constructed.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

I got a 8bitdo 2c and its got bluetooth/2.4ghz and hall effect joystick for less than 30$.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Give tax credits to companies that help serve content via something like Peertube. They can use their spare capacity.

Use it for CBC as well.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I figured the monolithic kernel would make it opposite to the unix philosophy.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Doomberg, the most popular energy market substack poster, has a theory that Trump wanted Carney to win in order to push an east to west pipeline during an Alberta sovereignty crisis. It actually seems to be going all as they predicted, including Trudeau stepping down and Carney then winning the election.

Its a fun theory anyways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kA0JzxylvE

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The NDP started as a merger of labor party, saying they are a hero after a decade of abandoning labor seems silly to me. Thats how it ties together.

The NDP who brought us universal healthcare actually fully funded everything via taxes, the current incarnation of the NDP didnt fund a single program they created, meaning it is funded with future austerity with interest and inflation.

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